The news that Donald Trump is dropping — for now, anyway! — his monumentally stupid (even for him) lawsuit against Bill Maher may be good for the humorless blowhard and reality TV star, but it’s disappointing for late-night comedy writers and celeb jurisprudence fans. C’mon, admit it: that would’ve been a fun trial, if for nothing else than Maher’s testimony. At any rate, while we’re waiting to see if Trump holds true on his threat to return to the matter at a later date, here’s a look back at other instances of celebrities — real and C-list — who’ve taken each other to court. … Read More
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. “It was a weird, confusing space to be in, because as angry as I was, as angry and hurt and betrayed, I just felt like he made that mistake because he needed help and who’s going to help him? Nobody’s going to say he needs help. Everybody’s going to say he’s a monster without… Read More
These Are the Bands That Make You Totally Undateable
A couple of weeks back, our esteemed literary editor Emily Temple surveyed the books that might make you beat a hasty retreat if you saw them on a potential date’s bookshelf, or in their handbag. The post got plenty of heated comments, and it also got us thinking about the other place you might look to snoop on a date’s cultural credentials: their record collection (or, failing that, their iPod.) And so, as we did for books, we asked around Flavorpill central to find out which artists might, if discovered on a potential date’s playlist, put an end to that date pretty damn quickly. We received plenty of responses, and the entirely personal, subjective, and often hotly debated results await after the jump. … Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Celebrity Boxing has offered Drake and Chris Brown $1 million a piece to box it out at the Staples Center; should this unlikely event actually happen, the proceeds from the match would go to a charity for abused women. [via PopDust]
2. “Let’s Boot and Rally,” a duet by Iggy Pop and… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. HBO is apologizing for putting a model of George W. Bush‘s head on a stake in an episode of Game of Thrones. “After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush,” explain series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. “In the DVD commentary, we… Read More
What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we infiltrated 10 evil corporations in movies. We met 10 artists investigated by the FBI. We saw the world’s best cathedrals. We watched a celebrity spotting prank. We desperately wanted the My Little Pony convention to get here so we could listen to
Who Wants to Edit Chris Brown Out of Nicki Minaj’s New Video?
It is so difficult to ignore Chris Brown, who everyone besides teenage girls and other pop artists seems to be completely disgusted with, when folks like Nicki Minaj keep insisting on collaborating with him. So we kind of expected to see Brown taking up space in her video for “Right by My Side,” although we couldn’t predict that he and Nas — who doesn’t appear on the track — would be dividing Minaj’s affections in it. She makes the right choice in the end, and the scenes between her and Nas are just as sweet as the syrupy song requires. The only problem is that their romance has to share the stage with Brown’s overtures to Minaj — which has us thinking that we’d like to see a fan edit of “Right by My Side” that cuts him out and replaces him with pictures of cats, stills from Kitty Pryde’s “Okay Cupid” video, or even just TV’s classic color-bar test pattern. Seriously, if there is a reader out there ambitious enough to do this, we would be thrilled to post your video. … Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his work covering the Middle East, has died in northern Syria following a severe asthma attack. His photographer, Tyler Hicks, carried his body back over the border into Turkey; the two had snuck into the country under a fence to document the… Read More
2012 Grammy Awards: The Night’s Weirdest Moments
Last night’s Grammy Awards ceremony was possibly the most awkward product to come out of the music industry since, well, last year’s terrible John Mayer “Jolene” tribute at the Grammys. The inevitable red-carpet polling about Whitney Houston’s death ranged from cringe-worthy to outright ghoulish, and the range of impromptu supergroups was baffling, disturbing, and eccentric, to say the least. From Bon Iver’s mumbled acceptance speech to Brian Wilson’s never-wished-for collaboration with Maroon 5 and Foster the People, the whole night was full of moments that made music lovers scratch our heads and wonder whether the entire show had been pasted together from various YouTube mash-ups. And yet, we could have probably guessed that this ceremony would be bizarre as soon as we glimpsed Nicki Minaj on the red carpet with a fake pope. We count down the weirdest moments of the 2012 Grammys, after the jump. … Read More
What's On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds In Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we watched a young Morgan Freeman teach little kids how to rhyme. We channeled our inner zombie. We tried to figure out how many things in this 1973 Lego catalogue we once owned. We read The Awl’s think piece on the Lana Del Rey… Read More
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